Word: circularity
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...chimp began his pioneering trip through space, another U.S. missile, bearing an earth satellite, was launched from Point Arguello Naval Missile Facility, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles. It was an Air Force Samos (from Satellite and Missile Observation System), and it went into an almost perfectly circular polar orbit 300-350 miles above the earth...
...Eater. A ship designed to keep waterways that usually freeze open all winter has been patented by Engineer Frank C. Ehinger, 79, of Adrian, Mich. Circular saws mounted like plow disks in front of the ship cut the ice. It is forced back up a ramp into the ship, crushed to cocktail-size chips and spewed clear of the chan nel through a pipe. Ehinger says an oil company, which he will not name, has bought the rights to build...
...whose pictures of the earth's cloud pattern gave a valuable overall view of global weather. Last week the U.S. launched Tiros II, to improve on the work of its predecessor. The 280-lb., drum-shaped satellite, spangled with 9,260 solar cells, went into a nearly circular orbit about 400 miles above the earth. All except one of its instruments worked fine; only the wide-angle TV camera for photographing large-scale cloud cover was out of kilter...
Driving his own car, Stafford arrived about an hour. He is a thin, tall, dignified looking man in his mid-forties of brown hair curls in ridges, his profile is semi-circular squalling nose is most prominent. Slightly disturbing in watery gray eyes, which have trouble, fixing on anyone opposes...
...detachment, of a novelist from his experience, without which life would never become literature. But while he is still the close observer, Durrell sets down much of the immemorial daily life of the islanders, from grape-treading to olive-pressing, from the festivals of miracle-accredited saints to the circular communal ritual of the Greek dances, which by some law of emotional gravity galvanizes spectators into performers...